Author Page for Chris Haught

Chris is the editor of Blogging Painters, a site she developed to help contractors build their business. She also provides consulting and website development to people who wish to create their own Wordpress site.

Tom Ewer over at Manage WP has another brilliant article on using boosting engagement (You should also check out his own blog, Leaving Work Behind). He brings up some good points on how to engage. I use #1 with good results on a blog with a lot of product reviews, so the related posts are […]

This is another wordpress plugin I am trying out, thanks to Bob Dunn over at For Bloggers by Bloggers. Well, I think I do like it. Still want a way to use a Picasa album to show like this, the search continues….

In my search for a simpler way to share photos in WordPress I am using Picasa in conjunction with Google +. This embedding the slideshow from Picasa You can adjust the size, autoplay and captions This is just using the HTML for album, and it takes the viewer to online album. Accent […]

One of my biggest (and maybe only) complaints about WordPress is handling images. Between file sizes, viewing options, alt tags, galleries and hosting, there are a ton of details. Having a multi author blog, it is even harder for new posters. I started using Picasa with my Mac’s Iphoto program last year with a nice […]

One of the great things about blogging is interacting with others. Every blogger loves to see comments on their posts. How do you encourage people to post? You can ask for comments at the end of each post, you can make it easy to post a comment like we discussed here, you can also add […]

Photo Credit: Bas Lammers via Compfight Every Blogger worries about photos used in their blog, especially if it is a multi author blog and others are contributing. You can buy stock photos or do a Google Image search and hope to find with Creative Commons or add the credit to the original photo. Here […]